Roberts emerges as swing vote in bid to create religious public charter school

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The high court has long held that states can require their public schools to be secular.
53% : The key difference between other public schools is that charter institutions are run by private organizations.
53% : Drummond's office, represented Wednesday by attorney Gregory Garre, pushed back and emphasized the state's increased control over charter schools.
51% : In many states, laws are on the books that require charter schools to be run in a nonsectarian way.
50% : With Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused, Chief Justice John Roberts emerged as the key swing vote over the effort to establish St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in Oklahoma, which has spurred a major constitutional battle over the role of religion in state-funded education.
39% : But Campbell insisted the case is like earlier ones the Supreme Court decided in Maine, Montana and Missouri, where the justices said state programs that fund private education cannot carve out religious schools.
36% : "All we have here is government oversight outside of the organization, and this Court has been clear in its state action cases that government regulation from the outside is not sufficient to constitute state control," said James Campbell, an attorney at Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal powerhouse, who represents the charter school board.

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